Having considered both the BB & Droid I went Droid II. My boss had a BB curve & I didn't like either the keyboard or track ball. My daughter had a BB storm that kept locking up when it received text messages. So I went Droid. I have huge fingers and have used the pull out key board exactly once. Since I don’t use it I wish I went with a model without that feature. IMO it makes the phone more fragile for something I don’t use.
One of the knocks against the droid was battery life. I got the extended life battery (which on the droid II is not much larger then the standard) and down loaded adv app killer. After tweaking the app killer setting I can go a day and a half of heavy use on one charge.